David Kirkpatrick

David Kirkpatrick was handed the keys to the Facebook kingdom - the result is the definitive account of its phenomenal rise Observer Today â€" six years after it was created in a Harvard dorm room â€" over 500 million people use Facebook regularly, in just about every country on earth. That a company this powerful and influential was started as a lark by a couple of 19-year-olds makes it a fascinating and surprising tale. That one of them, the visionary Mark Zuckerberg, had the maturity, strategic smarts and luck to keep his company ahead of its rivals anchors the tale. With exclusive inside access to all the companys leaders David Kirkpatrick tells of the vision, the tenacity, the refusal to compromise, and the vision Zuckerberg has to remake the internet. A brilliant and fascinating cast of characters created Facebook and Kirkpatrick has interviewed all of them. Never before have Zuckerberg and his closest colleagues told what really happened as they built their dynamo while eating fast food, staying up all night, and thumbing their noses at how things are usually done.

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Comment un étudiant de Harvard a-t-il créé – à dix-neuf ans – une entreprise qui a transformé Internet et comment a-t-il géré sa phénoménale croissance ? David Kirkpatrick, chroniqueur technologique

The exclusive inside story of Facebook and how it has revolutionized the way the world uses the Internet. A fantastic book, filled with great reporting and colorful narrative (Walter Isaacson).In little more than half a decade, Facebook has gone from a dorm-room novelty to a company with 500 million users. It is one of the fastest growing companies in history, an essential part of the social life not only of teenagers but hundreds of millions of adults worldwide. As Facebook spreads around the globe, it creates surprising effectseven becoming instrumental in political protests from Colombia to Iran.Veteran technology reporter David Kirkpatrick had the full cooperation of Facebooks key executives in researching this fascinating history of the company and its impact on our lives. Kirkpatrick tells us how Facebook was created, why it has flourished, and where it is going next. He chronicles its successes and missteps, and gives readers the most complete assessment anywhere of founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the central figure in the companys remarkable ascent. This is the Facebook story that can be found nowhere else.How did a nineteen-year-old Harvard student create a company that has transformed the Internet and how did he grow it to its current enormous size? Kirkpatrick shows how Zuckerberg steadfastly refused to compromise his vision, insistently focusing on growth over profits and preaching that Facebook must dominate (his word) communication on the Internet. In the process, he and a small group of key executives have created a company that has changed social life in the United States and elsewhere, a company that has become a ubiquitous presence in marketing, altering politics, business, and even our sense of our own identity. This is the Facebook Effect.

Today - six years after it was created in a Harvard dorm room - over 500 million people use Facebook regularly, in just about every country on earth. That a company this powerful and influential was started as a lark by a couple of 19-year-olds makes it a fascinating and surprising tale. That one of them, the visionary Mark Zuckerberg, had the maturity, strategic smarts and luck to keep his company ahead of its rivals anchors the tale.With exclusive inside access to all the companys leaders David Kirkpatrick tells of the vision, the tenacity, the refusal to compromise, and the vision Zuckerberg has to remake the internet. A brilliant and fascinating cast of characters created Facebook and Kirkpatrick has interviewed all of them. Never before have Zuckerberg and his closest colleagues told what really happened as they built their dynamo while eating fast food, staying up all night, and thumbing their noses at how things are usually done.

En poc més de 5 anys Facebook ha passat de ser una xarxa social que posava en contacte els joves estudiants de Harvard a convertir-se en l'empresa més important en l'àmbit de les comunicacions i la q

En pocos años, Facebook ha pasado de ser una pequeña empresa dirigida desde un dormitorio de la Universidad de Harvard a convertirse en la red social más popular del mundo. Cuenta con cientos de millones de personas inscritas, un valor de mercado incalculable y ha servido para dar difusion a protestas y reivindicaciones en paises de todo el mundo.David Kirkpatrick ha querido conocer la historia real de su fundacion y las claves que la han llevado a convertirse en el fenomeno sociologico mas importantes de los ultimos años. Para ello, ha investigado a fondo sus caracteristicas, crecimiento, objetivos, influencia, modelo y perspectiva de negocio y se ha entrevistado con todos sus fundadores y directivos, incluidos Moskovitz y Mark Zuckerberg, su alma mater.Facebook es mucho mas que una red social. Su relevancia alcanza cotas que pocos se hubieran atrevido a pronosticar. Ha sido la plataforma de comunicacion de politicos como Obama, ha servido para dar notoriedad a campañas reivindicativas en paises tan distantes como Iran o Mexico y es ya una gran plataforma para las campañas publicitarias mas importantes. Todo esto es el efecto Facebook.El libro explica todo lo que ha sucedido a lo largo de estos pocos años y que hasta ahora no aparecia en ningun otro libro ni en la pelicula que retrato su nacimiento. Ademas, nos da las claves para entender las causas de su revolucionario exito, asi como para entender por que Mark Zuckerberg es, en opinion del autor, el nuevo Bill Gates .